Novelist and poet. After graduating from a women's school affiliated with Tokyo Women's Normal School (later, Ochanomizu University), she studied poetry and novel writing under Sasaki Nobutsuna and Natsume Soseki. In 1895 she published Kureyuku Aki (Autumn Deepens) in the magazine Bungaku Kurabu. In 1905 she released the anti-war poem Ohyakudo Moude (One Hundred Visits to Shrine) in the magazine Taiyo (The Sun) and received attention along with Yosano Akiko.